Re: UNS: Debian 4.0 Upgrade Path
* Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de> wrote:
> Dear Michael,
>
> Michael Gilbert wrote:
>> it already seems hard enough with the current level of manpower to
>> support two releases at the same time let alone three. it may be
>> doable, but the security team would need more volunteers (particularly
>> those interested in doing the work to keep oldstable supported).
>
> I found this posting on testing-security-announce which seems to indicate
> that security support for squeeze is not going to start soon:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-security-announce/2010/01/msg00000.html
>
> However if that is the case, I wonder if oldstable support could be
> extended for some more time.
But why? There is a *stable* release with security support. Debian isn't
made for skipping a whole release. And the end of support for etch was
announced long ago, so that everyone had enough time to switch to lenny,
and not 2 days before breakeven.
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